The Producers Guild of America just announced its nominees for Best Picture. Their ten choices are pretty much in line with what should be the Oscar 10 Best Pictures. The PGA didn’t include “Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” which I think might take the place of “Beasts of the Southern Wild.” They also skipped “The Master.” But this list is good to go. There are also lists for feature animation and documentary, as well as TV shows. “Searching for Sugar Man” is my favorite doc of the year. Nice to see it included.

The Long-Form Television category encompasses both movies of the week and mini-series.

In November 2012, the Producers Guild of America announced the Documentary Theatrical Motion Picture, Television Series and Non-Fiction Television Nominations; the following list includes complete producer credits.

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures:

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Roger, I respectfully disagree about BOTSW. It will be one of the “small” movies on the Academy’s list of nominees. If you notice in the past 3-4 years, all the winning movies have been small budgets (Slumdog, Hurt Locker, Artist) with UNKNOWN actors….so I think that Beasts will be among the BP nominees and may pick up a few more noms, like Best Supporting Actor, best screenplay, and director. Oh yeh, it could happen.